Red Wolf by Jennifer Dance

Author:Jennifer Dance
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2014-01-06T05:00:00+00:00

Just before dark, the nurse came down the corridor and saw one lonely figure, his face pressed close to the pane of glass. “Oh, you poor dear,” she said. “Are you still waiting for your family?”

“They don’t want me,” Red Wolf replied, his downcast face hiding the tears that stung his eyes.

The nurse knelt and looked into the boy’s tear-stained face. “Oh, surely not!”

“They’ve forgotten me.”

“Heavens, that’s not true. How could anyone forget a boy like you?” She took a clean handkerchief from her apron pocket and wiped Red Wolf’s tears.

“So why haven’t they come for me?”

“Sometimes they can’t get permission to leave the reserve,” she explained sadly, “so they can’t come for you, even if they really, really want to.”

“What happens to me if no one comes?” the boy asked very quietly, as if scared to voice his concern.

“The big boys go into town. They work for white families in exchange for their keep. But the younger ones, like you, stay on here. They have to work for —” looking over both shoulders she whispered “— evil Mother Hall.” She pounced on Red Wolf in a spree of tickling and the boy giggled.

Red Wolf looked down the driveway one more time and saw his father shrouded in the dusk. “He’s here! He’s here!” the boy shrieked, bolting for the staircase and running outside. He threw himself into his father’s open arms, nearly knocking over HeWhoWhistles. And even though he was happier than he had been for ten long months, he wept. The nurse watched from the window and cried, too.

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